Writer/director Charlie Kaufman’s latest, the Netflix film ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things,’ is (among other things) a thoughtful exploration of a recurring but unexamined theme in his work.
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“If everybody want to stick together, I stick with ‘em. But if nobody want to stick together, I stick alone, by […]
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It’s one of the most striking openings in cinema history: A burly, shirtless man in a black hood stokes a brazier, […]
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You probably are not giving much thought to either The Expendables, an Avengers-style roundup of action stars with AARP cards, or […]
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In recent weeks and months, Hollywood’s legacy of cultural appropriation and racism has come under increased scrutiny, with the latest controversy […]
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“That twinkle in your eye,” Clark Gable marvels at Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own. “Wrap it up for […]
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Few films aimed at children have made the case for the value of every life as clearly as Babe did in […]
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Few artists can plan a career for themselves, especially in the uncertain world of filmmaking. Most work has to be taken […]
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Like The Stepford Wives, I’d avoided the original Rollerball due to a flaw over which it had no responsibility: spawning an […]
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Harry Palmer’s personal file reads like a permanent record: “Insubordinate, insolent, a trickster…perhaps with criminal tendencies.” When his new boss, another […]
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Though box office bombs come and go, some live on in infamy. Kevin Reynolds’ post-apocalyptic action flick Waterworld holds the usual […]
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I grew up in the Rotten.com days. For the morbid adolescent, crime scene photos and grisly images of freak accidents were […]
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